hea

Variation of here.

hea (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of hea'

hea (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of hea'

hea (not comparable)

1. (chiefly Hawaii or African-American Vernacular) Here.

   Da truck is ova hea.

   The truck is over here.

   • 2007 April 1, Chris McKinney, The Tattoo: A Novel, Soho Press, →ISBN:

     "She no stay home, I coming right back ova hea, and I goin' fuckin' kill you. So you tink about what you telling me. Cause if I come back, I no kea if you get fuckin' fifty pigs ova hea. I fuckin' kill 'um all." She smiled.

   • 2012 April 24, Ni'chelle Genovese, Baby Momma, Urban Books, →ISBN:

     “Roll back ova hea'an...” No, this nigga didn't. “Nigga? Is that Shiree? Are you for real fuckin' laid up right now?” I yelled into the phone. I ain' even need an answer. The nigga started stutterin' and fumblin' the phone. I hung.

   • 2014 05, Sharlene Tate, Beyond the Shackles of Double Tree, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

     “Well, I likes it too, Peaches,” Mose said, grinning from ear to ear, “but if callin ya Pearl can gits ya ova hea when I calls ya den I's gon be callin ya Pearl. Come on ovah hea, Pearly gal, les see if it woks.

• hea'

From Cantonese hea (he³).

• (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): /hɛ˧/

hea (not comparable)

1. (Hong Kong, colloquial, of people) slack; without or with little care or effort
2. (Hong Kong, colloquial) undemanding; with little workload

   Antonym: chur

• HAE, hae

Lau (2014) suggests influence from a northern Sunwui dialect, where /pʰ/ in pea is reduced to /h/.

hea (Cantonese)

1. to kill time; to hang around

   返屋企hea下先。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   faan¹ uk¹ kei² he³ haa⁵ sin¹.

   (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1997, “遊戲”, in 黃貫中 (lyrics), 請將手放開, performed by BEYOND [Beyond]:

     跟班friend hea到天光 [Literary Cantonese]  ―  gan¹ baan¹ fen¹ he³ dou³ tin¹ gwong¹   ―  hanging with friends until dawn

2. to do something without putting much care or effort into it
3. to go through the motions; to give a carefree response; to beat around the bush; to treat someone lightly
4. to place things casually; to disperse (with an outward motion)

   hea被 [Cantonese]  ―  he³ pei⁵   ―  (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   啲嘢唔好hea晒喺度。 [Cantonese, trad. and simp.]

   di¹ je⁵ m⁴ hou² he³ saai³ hai² dou⁶.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 男同學見個個都唔攝恤衫，自己咪又hea晒出嚟囉。 [Cantonese, trad.]
     男同学见个个都唔摄恤衫，自己咪又hea晒出嚟啰。 [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, 【神同步】你哋受埋我玩啦喵！, TV Most

     naam⁴ tung⁴ hok⁶ gin³ go³ go³ dou¹ m⁴ sip³ seot¹ saam¹, zi⁶ gei² mai¹ jau⁶ he³ saai³ ceot¹ lei⁴ lo¹.

     Male students finds that everyone is not tucking in their shirts, and so one follows suit and casually leaves his shirt to be on the outside

hea (Cantonese)

1. slack; casual; perfunctory; without or with little care or effort
2. slack; undemanding; with little workload

• → Hong Kong English: hea

hea (Cantonese)

1. without or with little care or effort; perfunctorily; indifferently; negligently

• pea

• 呢hea

• 劉鎮發 (2014 February 17) “「hea」源自新會話 ["hea" comes from Sunwui dialect]”, in Apple Daily‎ (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2014-03-02
• 馮睎乾 (2015 February 13) “Hea的正寫就是Hea [The correct way of writing 'hea' is just 'hea']”, in Apple Daily‎ (in Chinese), archived from the original on 2015-02-13

• hää (dialectal)

From Proto-Finnic *hüvä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɑ̯/,
• Hyphenation: hea
• Rhymes: -eɑ̯

hea (genitive hea, partitive head, comparative parem, superlative kõige parem or parim)

1. good

   Head ööd! ― Good night!

   Head päeva! ― Have a good day!

   Häid jõule! ― Merry Christmas!

• hüva

• “hea”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
• “hea”, in Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat [Estonian Etymological Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.a/,

hea

1. to call

hea

1. h-prothesized form of ea

hea

1. Rōmaji transcription of ヘア

hea

1. grieve

• IPA^(key): /xæ͜ɑː/,

hēa

1. inflection of hēah:
   1. strong accusative feminine singular
   2. strong instrumental masculine/neuter singular
   3. strong nominative/accusative masculine/feminine plural
   4. weak nominative masculine/feminine/neuter singular
   5. weak accusative neuter singular

From Old Frisian hā, hē, from Proto-Germanic *hawją.

• IPA^(key): /hɪə̯/

hea n (plural heaën, diminutive heake)

1. hay

• “hea (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• he, hey, hay

From Middle English he, hey, hay, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ.

• IPA^(key): /hiː/
• Homophones: ha, hi, heigh, hye

hea (third-person singular, masculine, accusative case him, reflexive himzil, possessive his)

1. he
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 45:

     Geeth hea aught?

     Doth he get any or anything?

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 63:

     Quo hea.

     Saith he.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

     Hea marreet dear Phielim to his sweet Jauane.

     He married dear Phelim to his sweet Joan.

   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 102:

     Neen chickès have hea ee-left vatherless.

     Nine chickens has he left fatherless.

• his
• hea's
• hea'de

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 45